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No. 311,564, Patented Feb. 3, 1885.

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GEORGE E. BLAINE, OF OHA'ITANOOGA, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR TO THE BLAINE CENTRE DRAFT PLOW? COMPANY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,564, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed June 4, 1 884. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BLAINE, of Chattanooga, in the county of Hamilton and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flows; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to plows, the object being to provide a plow of improved form, which shall combine simplicity and cheapness of construction with convenience and durability in use. i

The invention consists in a standard of th novel form hereinafter described, in the combination, with the standard, of pivoted adjustable handles, in a yielding plow-beam, and in the features of construction and cooperating parts, as will be fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lv represents a perspective view of my improved plow. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the same. Fig. 3 illustrates, in perspective, the plowstandard detached 5 and Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 illustrate different views of said standard.

A represents the standard, curved to extend under the niold-board B. The forward end of said standard is formed with a shoe, 0, having a recessed under surface, 0, adapted to bear upon the bottom of the plowed furrow. One side of the shoe 0 is inclined to form a seat, 0, for the mold-board B, which is secured therein by-the usual bolts. The opposite side, 0 of the shoe is beveled to receive the landside D, which is secured by bolts (Z. The mold-board and landside are further secured by tubular braces E and E, projecting from opposite sides of the standard and formed integral therewith. These braces register with openings formed in the mold-board and landside to receive fastening-bolts (2. Thus the standard, mold-board, and landside are securely braced and held together.

A further important feature of the shoe 0 is found in the fact that it tapers to a point, 0 and re-enforces and strengthens the plow-point. Again, the curved form of the standard and its connection near the point of the plow insure an application of draft nearest to the point of resistance. The upper end-of the standard is formed with a seat, F, having a longitudinal central depression, f, and provided with laterally-projecting ears G. This seat F receives the rear end of the beam H, the depression f insuring a close joint between the beam and the sides f of the seat, the beam held by a clamp, h, embracing the beam and extending through the enlarged openings 9 of the ears, and secured by nuts 9. The rear end of the beam is formed with an opening to receive a bolt, i, which enters an elongated slot, 6, formed in the rear end of beam seat F. The forward end of the beam. H is provided with a draft-connection, h. As thus constructed and applied, the beam is adapted to yield laterally to a slight extent, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, to regulate the width of furrow.

J J represent counterpart arms for securing the plow-handles L L in place. These arms are each formed with the horizontal forward ends, Z Z, adapted to be bolted to the standard, and the upwardly-inclined diverging portion Z Z, terminating in perforated heads Z 1 The handles L L are pivotally se cured to the arms JJ, just in rear of the standard, and are adj ustably secured to the heads of the said arms by means of removable screwbolts 3.

It will be apparent that the plow-handles may be readily raised or lowered to accommodate them to the operator.

It will be observed that by the construction described the standard, with its shoe, beamseat, and tubular braces, is cast in a single piece, thus reducing the expense of manufacture to the minimum.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination, with the mold-board, landside, and point of a plow, of a curved standard formed at its forward end with a shoe, upon which said mold-board, landside,

and point are secured, with a beam-seat and landside and mold-board in position, sub IO tubular braces formed integral therewith, sub stantially as described. stantially as described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 2. The combination, with the mold-board my own I affix my signature in presence of and landside, of a standard formed at its fortwo Witnesses.

- ward end with a shoe inclined for the reeep- GEORGE F. BLAINE.

tion of the mold-board, and beveled on its WVitnesses: 4 opposite side, as described,-said standard hav- F. O. lVIOCLEARY, ing tubular side braces formed to hold the O. E. DUFFY. 

